Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed Facebook and Instagram into a new era when he announced that they would follow in the footsteps of Elon Musk's X, doing away with fact-checkers and other content moderation in favor of community notes and freer speech.

Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced that Meta would end its partnerships with third party fact-checkers and institute a "Community Notes" model.

The Meta CEO announced changes to content moderation just in time for a familiar incoming presidential administration.

Meta’s chief executive has stepped away from his mea culpa approach to issues on his platforms and has told people that he wants to return to his original thinking on free speech.

Facebook’s algorithm angered founder Mark Zuckerberg when he shared a November 2023 post about his knee surgery and it received little engagement, The Wall Street Journal reports. It was this experience that led to the Meta CEO’s Jan.

Mark Zuckerberg has said he will get rid of Facebook's fact-checkers and replace them with a community notes system similar to the one used by X.

O n Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision? Elon Musk’s X.

Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg recently announced changes to content moderation on Facebook and Instagram long sought by conservatives.

The decision of a tech giant that owns popular social media platforms to end partnership deals with fact-checking groups threatens a surge of fake news and disinformation, say activists in the Philippines.

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